Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, three years had passed.
Yang Jingmu rode a freshly repaired treasure ship through the air. Upon reaching Heavenly Punishment Mountain, she did not stop. She took out a jade tablet and poured a stream of spiritual power into it. At once, clouds and mist surged as the mountain's formation opened a passage.
The treasure ship then sailed directly into the formation, which swiftly returned to normal.
"Senior, I have found the Azure Sea Glazed Fruits and Golden Flame Flowers you needed for alchemy."
The moment Yang Jingmu returned to Heavenly Punishment Mountain, she hurried without pause to Shen Mo's cave abode and handed him a Qiankun Pouch.
"You've worked hard!"
Shen Mo smiled as he accepted the Qiankun Pouch, then took out over a dozen specially refined wooden boxes capable of perfectly preserving the medicinal potency of spiritual herbs.
Opening the boxes one by one, four blue fruits and nine golden flowers appeared before them...
The former were crystalline and round, as though pearls from the ocean depths had merged with glazed glass, giving off a faint sea-blue radiance. Consuming one alone could temporarily enhance a cultivator's understanding and control of water-element power. They were rare treasures for cultivators of water-element cultivation arts and immortal techniques, as well as those with a Water Spirit Body.
The latter shone as brilliantly as a Blazing Sun. Their petals seemed forged from true gold, while the stamens at their centers burned with scorching golden flames. They could burn away filth and evil qi, but if swallowed directly without treatment, even an Origin Core Realm cultivator would struggle to suppress their violent medicinal properties, ultimately burning to death from within!
"Golden Flame Flowers grow above volcanic lava. Though rare, the Heavenly Demon Mountain Range